PostgreSQL equivalent for TOP n WITH TIES: LIMIT “with ties”?

Question

I\'m looking for something similar this in SQL Server:

SELECT TOP n WITH TIES FROM tablename

I know about LIMIT in PostgreSQL,

Answer 1

Postgres 13 finally adds WITH TIES . See:

• Greater than or equal to ALL() and equal to MAX() speed

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There is no WITH TIES clause up to PostgreSQL 12, like there is in SQL Server.
In PostgreSQL I would substitute this for TOP n WITH TIES .. ORDER BY :

WITH cte AS (
   SELECT *, rank() OVER (ORDER BY ) AS rnk
   FROM   tbl
   )
SELECT *
FROM   cte
WHERE  rnk <= n;

To be clear, rank() is right, dense_rank() would be wrong (return too many rows).
Consider this quote from the SQL Server docs (from the link above):

For example, if expression is set to 5 but 2 additional rows match the values of the ORDER BY columns in row 5, the result set will contain 7 rows.

The job of WITH TIES is to include all peers of the last row in the top n as defined by the ORDER BY clause. rank() gives the exact same result.

To make sure, I tested with SQL server, here is a live demo.
And here is a more convenient SQLfiddle.